The RSGB News feeds are back!

15 March 2015

Still going through the many things that need to be updated on this site, there are plenty of things that are no longer working quite like they should. On the road to curing some of the larger issues I have updated the RSGB scraper to work with the new RSGB website, bless the RSGB for finally using a system that is able to output RSS - the old scraper had to quite literally pull the text from the old site and then replace the text in-line to strip HTML tags. The new RSGB site uses a content management system (CMS) of some kind that also provides RSS feeds for the news available on the site. After the epic I had for getting the images out of the BBC News web site this was a really simple upgrade, great to see the RSGB using newer technology.